Little Bird is coming quickly to PBS. The community has picked up the Canadian drama and can air it in October. Darla Contois and Lisa Edelstein star within the six-episode restricted collection created by Jennifer Podemski and Hannah Moscovitch.
The drama follows a younger lady (Contois) looking for her delivery household. Ellyn Jade, Osawa Muskwa, Joshua Odjick, Imajyn Cardinal, Braeden Clarke, Eric Schweig, and Michelle Thrush additionally star within the collection.
“PBS introduced at the moment that celebrated Canadian drama LITTLE BIRD will premiere October twelfth at 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS and throughout all PBS platforms within the US (verify native listings). From Rezolution Pictures and OP Little Bird, and Canadian broadcasters Crave and APTN, in partnership with Fremantle, the six-part, one-hour restricted collection explores common themes of resilience within the face of trauma and loss. It follows Bezhig Little Bird (Darla Contois) as she embarks on a path to seek out her delivery household and uncover the hidden fact of her household historical past.
PBS may even broadcast and stream COMING HOME, a 90-minute companion documentary offering historic context concerning the Sixties Scoop on October twelfth at 10:00 p.m. ET (verify native listings). Directed by Erica Daniels (Run as One), COMING HOME explores the connections between the ground-breaking motion for Indigenous narrative sovereignty and the impression of the kid welfare system as skilled by the LITTLE BIRD collection’ Indigenous creatives, crew, and Sixties Scoop advisors. COMING HOME gives a structuring through-line, interwoven with interviews with solid, crew, and neighborhood members revealing private connections to the Sixties Scoop.
LITTLE BIRD and COMING HOME will stream on all station-branded PBS platforms together with PBS.org, and the PBS app, obtainable on iOS, Android, Roku streaming units, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast, and VIZIO. Both packages may even be obtainable to stream on PBS Passport and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel.
Removed from her house in Long Pine Reserve in Saskatchewan, Bezhig Little Bird is adopted right into a Montréal Jewish household at age 5, turning into Esther Rosenblum. Now in her 20s, Bezhig longs for the household she misplaced and is keen to sacrifice every thing to seek out them. Her search lands her within the Canadian Prairies, worlds aside from every thing she is aware of. As she begins to trace down her siblings, she unravels the thriller behind her adoption and discovers that her apprehension was linked to a racist authorities coverage, now generally known as the Sixties Scoop. Bezhig’s sense of identification shatters, and he or she is pressured to reckon with who she is and who she desires to grow to be.
Led by Contois, the character-driven drama contains a proficient solid of Indigenous actors, together with: Ellyn Jade; Osawa Muskwa; Joshua Odjick; Imajyn Cardinal; Braeden Clarke; Eric Schweig; and Michelle Thrush. Rounding out the solid is Lisa Edelstein (House, M.D., Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce) who performs Esther’s adoptive mom, Golda Rosenblum.
The latest winner of the coveted Audience Award on the 2023 SERIES MANIA Festival in Lille, France, LITTLE BIRD was filmed in and round Winnipeg, in Brokenhead Ojibway Nation on Treaty 1 territory and in Sioux Valley Dakota Nation. LITTLE BIRD showrunner Jennifer Podemski was additionally not too long ago introduced with an Academy Board Of Directors’ Tribute Award on the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards.
“PBS is proud to deliver American viewers the premiere of LITTLE BIRD,” says Maria Bruno Ruiz, Vice President, Program Content Strategy and Scheduling at PBS. “We aspire to deliver genuine packages wealthy in tradition and variety to our viewers and we’re thrilled so as to add the highly effective LITTLE BIRD story to our platforms.”
“It is a strong narrative that not solely engages and pulls in your heartstrings, but in addition educates on a profoundly disturbing time in North American historical past that’s hardly ever portrayed.” mentioned Germaine Sweet, Managing Director, Content Acquisitions at PBS Distribution. “In addition to the inventive brilliance of Jennifer Podemski and Hannah Moscovitch, this collection was delivered by a wealth of Indigenous expertise each in entrance of and behind the digicam.”
“LITTLE BIRD is a vital story that requires sensitivity and boldness to make clear a chunk of historical past that’s not extensively recognized. We are proud to collaborate with PBS to make sure that this story reaches audiences within the United States and receives the popularity it deserves,” mentioned Lisa Honig, Senior EVP Distribution North America, Fremantle.
Led by an Indigenous inventive workforce, LITTLE BIRD is developed by showrunner, Jennifer Podemski and Rezolution Pictures, and created by Podemski and head author Hannah Moscovitch. The inventive workforce consists of administrators Zoe Hopkins and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and was written by Hopkins and Moscovitch. The collection is government produced by Christina Fon, Ernest Webb, Catherine Bainbridge, Linda Ludwick (Rezolution Pictures), Kim Todd, Nicholas Hirst (Original Pictures), Jennifer Podemski, Hannah Moscovitch, Zoe Hopkins, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Jeremy Podeswa, together with Christian Vesper and Dante Di Loreto (Fremantle). Producers are Tanya Brunel and Jessica Dunn (OP Little Bird), Claire MacKinnon and Philippe Chabot Rezolution Pictures) and Lori Lozinski and Ellen Rutter. Fremantle handles international gross sales.
For Bell Media, Alison Korogyi is Development Executive; Rachel Goldstein-Couto is Head of Development, Original Programming; Mitch Geddes is Production Executive; Sarah Fowlie is Head of Production, Original Programming; Carlyn Klebuc is General Manager, Original Programming; Tory Jennings is Director of Content, Crave; Justin Stockman is Vice-President, Content Development & Programming; and Karine Moses is Senior Vice-President, Content Development & News, Bell Media and Vice Chair, Québec, Bell.
For APTN, Adam Garnet Jones is Director of TV Content and Special Events, Danelle Granger is Executive in command of Development and Scripted Content, and Lisa Ducharme is Director of Online Content and Deliverables.
LITTLE BIRD and COMING HOME be a part of the slate of Indigenous programming PBS will broadcast this fall honoring Native American Heritage, together with THE AMERICAN BUFFALO by Ken Burns premiering October 16, NEXT AT THE KENNEDY CENTER “Embracing Duality: Modern Indigenous Cultures” premiering October 20 and NATIVE AMERICA SEASON TWO premiering October 24 (verify native listings). All packages will proceed to stream on PBS.org, and the PBS app all through Native American Heritage Month in November.”
